New Catalinbread Talisman Plate Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal
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From Catalinbread:
Listen
to any recording from the 70’s and you’ll most likely hear the
sound of a plate reverb, a giant mechanical contraption roughly the
size of a king size bed. It was ubiquitous in the studio, and was the
only reverb used on Pink Floyd's iconic Dark Side of the Moon album
for example. What made plate reverb so cool? It adds lush ambience,
dimension, thickness, and depth in an unobtrusive way. When you
listen to your favorite albums from the 70s you probably don't even
realize how much plate reverb you are hearing. Go back and listen and
hone in on the reverb sound and you’ll probably be surprised how
much reverb is actually there. In the studio the plate reverb signal
was often processed on the way back to the console where the things
like filtering and delays were applied.
Plate
reverb is an artificial effect that utilizes a sheet of metal that
vibrates sympathetically with a soundwave that hits it. The basic
architecture of a plate reverb unit has a large, thin sheet of metal
(nearly 6.5’x3’ in the case of the legendary EMT140) that has a
transducer at one corner driving the sheet in much the same way as a
speaker would, on the other end a pickup to capture the vibrations of
the metal sheet, and a mechanical dampener that reduces the plate
vibration. The reverb sonically stays out of the way of the dry path
due to the minimal initial reflections and a full warm reverb that
tapers smoothly fades out into a tail. In the studio, plate reverbs
were routinely employed due to the way they added a natural ambience
without interfering with the original program material… That and
the fact that even though they were nearly 7 feet long and 4 feet
tall, plate reverb units were a heck of a lot smaller than a giant
room or hall when ambience was needed on recordings.
Plate
reverb units were used on just about every instrument including
vocals. Though they sound particularly great with electric guitar due
to the minimal early reflections which keeps plate reverbs from
sounding too “effecty” and obvious. The warm quality of the
full-bodied reverb naturally tapering off compliments perfectly the
voice and range of the guitar. The problem has been until now, the
giant size made plate reverb units prohibitive to use on the road. We
are proud to brag that the Talisman is 479.99% smaller than the
leading plate reverb!
We
always felt something was amiss with so-called “plate reverb”
settings on many products in the marketplace. Lets be honest, they
often simply sounded thin, metallic and crappy. It was almost as if
the programmers said while tapping on a cookiesheet, “yeah I know
what a metal sheet sounds like, I’ll program it to sound that way!”
Our goal was to capture all the goodness of classic studio plate
reverb by actually experiencing a maintained EMT140 at Jackpot!
Studios.
Because
plate reverb was born in the studio, on the Talisman we included
studio style sidechain effects that are routinely paired with plates.
These controls are PRE DELAY, which delays the reverb by about 100mS.
And HIGH PASS, which rolls off the low frequencies of the reverb.
Both of these controls allow you to tune the reverb, in order to keep
it from interfering with the dry signal.